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Such contracts and rules must be consistent with the following conditions:- (1) The Divisional Canal officer may not stop the supply of water to any watercourse, or to any person, except in the following cases:- (a) whenever it is necessary to stop such supply for the purpose of executing any work ordered by the competent authority and with the previous sanction of the Superintending Canal Officer; (b) whenever and so long as any watercourse is not maintained in such proper customary repair so as to prevent the wasteful escape of water therefrom; (c) within periods fixed from time to time by the Divisional Canal officer; (d) whenever water is not used for the purpose for which it was being supplied. (2) No claim shall be made against the State Government for compensation in respect of loss caused by the failure or stoppage or reduction of water in the canal by reason of any cause beyond the control of the State Government or of any repairs, alterations or additions to canals, or of any measures taken for the regulating the proper flow of water therein or for maintaining the established course of irrigation which the Divisional Canal officer considers necessary; but the person suffering such loss may claim such remission of the ordinary charges payable for the use of the water as is authorized by the State Government. In absence of written contract water-supply to be subject to rules. Power to stop water-supply and compensation. Bar Jurisdiction of civil court. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1974: Haryana Act 29 CANAL AND DRAINAGE 15. (3) If the supply of water to any land irrigated from a canal be interrupted otherwise than in the manner prescribed in sub section (2), the occupier or owner of such land may present a petition for compensation to the Collector for any loss arising from such interruption, and the Collector may award to the petitioner reasonable compensation for such loss. (4) When the water of a canal is supplied for the irrigation of a single crop, the permission to use such water shall be held to continue only until that crop comes to maturity, but if it be supplied for irrigation two or more crops to be raised on the same land within the year, such permission shall be held to continue for one year from the commencement of the irrigation and to apply to such crops only as matured within that year. (5) If any written contract or agreement for the supply of canal water has been made in which the period has not been specifically mentioned, it shall be deemed to have been made for one year unless such contract or agreement is renewed for another year. Provided that a contract or agreement executed before the commencement of this act, shall, if a period of one year or more has already expired, cease to have effect on the date of commencement of this Act. (6) No person, entitled to use the water of any canal or any work, building or land appertaining to any canal, shall sell or sublet or otherwise transfer his right to such use, without the permission of the Superintending Canal Officer: Provided that the aforesaid provision shall not apply to the use by a cultivating tenant the water supplied to the owner for the irrigation of the land held by such tenant. Provided further that all contract made between the State Government and the owner or occupier of any immovable property as to the supply of canal water to such property, shall be transferable therewith, and shall be presumed to have been so transferred whenever a transfer of such property take place. *Substituted vide Legislative Department Notification No. 31-Leg/80 dated the 30th July, 1980